I Am The Nation read by Johnny Cash

Found Objects

Graze and Gaze

Bully, with his mouth full, kicked the dirt back with his right front hoof just before I took this photo. I decided it might be best if I moved on. The reason I even stopped to take this photo was because I had lunch with my friend Linda from Monet, Missouri. Linda raises beef cattle and quarter horses. She came into to town to see a doctor about her broken foot and arm from falling off her horse trailer. During lunch, she explained problems with some of her cows delivering calves that are not old enough to care for them. She said "some heifers are better mothers" and she had a few that were too young and did not get the birth sac off the calf in time, resulting in calves suffocating. Part of Linda's job, as a cattle farmer is to make sure her cows and calves are cared for when the heifers are inexperienced. The bull in this particular photo belongs to my neighbor down the road. This cow is being kept separate from the herd until he is needed.

Studio Work

16" X 16" oil on paper


30" X 30"oil on linen


30" X 30" oil on linen


24" X 24" oil on panel


30" x 30" oil on linen

16" X 16" oil on paper

Foxy

Foxy was getting drunk on persimmons when I walked up and crashed his party. He waited in the brush until I moved on...

Photography Work, Satuday October 18th, 2008

My day spent taking photographs of a yard sale, laundry hanging, mailboxes and the graveyard has inspired me to start working in the realm of collage in the studio. Mr. Huffman's name handwritten on his mail box as well as the bullet hole in the side of it speaks about contemporary rural America... I particularly like Margorie's installation of rags hung by clothespins from Christmas lights strung across the yard to make a clothesline. Margorie was fine if I took pictures, as long as I was not with the law or Federal Government and if the images were not to be used for any detriment. The yard sale and the laundry hanging embodies the idea of an installation of women working on their day off...each person at the yard sale made about $200 dollars that day and got rid of things they did not need. Margorie got some laundry done and was puzzled by my thinking of her laundry and her work as beautiful.

Photography Work, Satuday October 18th, 2008 Continued...

Studio Work

Studio Work Continued...

Studio Work

The past several days in the studio have presented me with work inspired by referencing Helen Frankenthaler. She is known for her abstract expressionistic landscapes on various unprepared surfaces. Although I have been taught that archival approaches to my work are most appropriate, I have chosen to paint canvases without priming them. I am treating them as if they were watercolors on canvas. I have also been painting wood prepared with clear primer (much like a synthetic version of rabbit skin glue) using oil and cold wax and a scraping method.

Much of the color is being determined by scraping and blending process while the work is in the hands of it's maker. I like allowing the wood to show through.

Studio Experiments

These are a few paintings I have been working on this semester.
The top image is oil on canvas and the bottom two are torched wood...

Intervals of Time and Space

Intervals of Time and Space in Little Rock went well. I was given feedback about my work that will impact my further development and am starting to hear some remarks weaving consistent threads within my paintings. Although, some are not as interested in the environmental work, I am not ready to forgo this subject matter. Currently, I am working on my research paper as well as experimental work in the studio.

Upcoming Exhibitions 2008

If you plan on being in:

Little Rock, Arkansas

Boston, Massachusetts

Chicago, Illinois

in the coming months, I invite you the following galleries to view not only my work but the work and galleries of other artists and gallerists I have been given the honor of sharing space with. If you are not able to visit any of these locations please visit
whitesidepaintings.com
Selected New Work 2008

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Intervals of Time and Space
Featured Artist: LaDawna Whiteside
Opening Reception Friday, 5pm-8pm, August 8, 2008
on view until September 6, 2008
River Market ArtSpace
301 President Clinton Avenue
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
501-324-ARTS
www.RiverMarketArtSpace.com
www.2ndFridayArtNight.com

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A Woman's Place
Opening Reception Friday, August 1, 2008. 5:30-7:30pm
Closing Reception Saturday, August 23, 2008. 3-5pm
450 Harrison Avenue
Boston,MA 02118
Bromfield Gallery
http://www.bromfieldgallery.com
Gallery Hours:
12-5 Wednesday - Saturday

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"One Planet, One Experiment"
exhibition on display
from September 5 to October 2, 2008
Woman Made Gallery
685 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
312-738-0400
www.womanmade.org